A Day Mountain Saunter…

“Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.”                   

                                      John Muir, quoted by Albert Palmer in A Parable of Sauntering

 

 

 

 

The kids asked to hike Day Mt this year…each time we have climbed it in August there have been lots of blueberries to pick along the way…This time however there weren’t any…I think that they ripened early.  Trail mix replaced the blueberries and the hike remained a success.

Finished…

31 days of Picture Winter and I enjoyed each one.

I did find it time consuming at times but it got me taking photos outside and inside all month long, taking photos of subjects I never would have stopped and considered before.

“To me, photography is an art of observation.  It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”   ~  Elliott Erwitt

Giving Thanks…

…for all the big things…Family, Friends, Health, Food, Shelter, the Land and Sea… and for all the small things….melted butter, fleece jackets, children’s artwork, a good story, the smell of hot apple cider, the dance of a dry leaf caught in a whirlwind, the sound of a camera’s shutter…

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.  ~Thornton Wilder

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am participating in a blog hop sponsored by some wonderful photographers at Mortal Muses.  I will be thankful if I can find some time to visit each and every link!

A Summer Philosophy…

 

 

"I look back upon a day spent in what the world would call idleness, and for which I myself can suggest no more appropriate epithet, but which nevertheless I cannot feel to have been spent amiss. True, it might be a sin and a shame in a world such as ours to spend a lifetime in this manner; but for a few summer weeks it is good to live as if this world were heaven."

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

I will have to agree with Mr Hawthorne….